The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, or CoSM is the personal museum of famed NYC artist Alex Grey.
CoSM is a center of spiritual, sexual and empirical thought, expression and freedom. Visionary spiritualist Alex Grey has a knack for capturing in paint what we can only imagine in fleeting bits and pieces. He creates worlds that are simultaneously in front of and inside the viewer.
If you live in, or will be visiting NYC, I highly recommend you check out the above link. His works embody raw passion, to the point where a viewing with one of his pieces feels like mental sex. Alex Grey is known for shedding away the flesh and showing humans, animals and ideas in their true form.
If you plan to visit - Leave all reservations at the door!
The following is a piece of prose I wrote on a recent visit. The inspiration was a wonderful triptych titled "Journey of the Wounded Healer".
I fell into the piece, and barely climbed back out. For a second, my world went dark... and only then could I see that the light has been artificial all along.
The chicken-man crows
His hearkening call bringing with it a new era of silence
I came once, and witnessed
What before I'd only heard
The little fish becomes the big sea
Becomes the sky
Mirrors the world
Mechanical dreams become patchwork memories
And the feelings of winter,
They reflect in her eyes
In my bed
of Baptism and burial
A tangled path unwinds anew
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Prose, as inspired by CoSM
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6 comments:
good stuff man
gotta check it out
Like a Hieronimus Bosch and Salvador Dali collaboration - very psychedelic!
Hey an dose prose ain't half bad eider!
Incidentally, are you hip to Steven Colbert and his Fire and Snow stuff???
Thanks dejanea, be sure you do! It's something that stays with you.
Java - yea, that's an excellent description. He has Bosch's use of vivid color and Dali's use of fluid line.
I'm a big fan of Colbert, ever since the early days of him being a contributor on Jon Stewart's show. Not exactly sure what this "Fire and Snow" stuff of his is.
Not to sound like the geek in the midst but the pic on the extreme left looks an awful lot like the double helix shape of a DNA molecule, was that intentional?
Sorry man - I meant Gregory Colbert - Ashes and Snow. Check it out - excellent stuff!
Darwin - Yep, intentional indeed. This artists combines ideas from traditional physical science with his own spiritual vision. You probably also noticed the attention to anatomy in his see-through figures. That's one of the things that caught my attention.
Java - Wow, wrong Colbert =) This looks fascinating, totally different from anything I've seen before. And it's in my town, have to check it out. Thanks J.
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